Packaging Manager

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to lead and manage the Packaging Department (People, Plant, Process and Systems) in order to achieve the required standard of product quality and output in the most efficient and effective manner.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment

• Implement and comply with safety, health and environmental legislation and procedures

• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards

• Manage Human Resources

• Develop employees.

• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate.

• Manage and apply people policies and practices. Develop employees

• Manage talent and pipeline in packaging

OPTIMISE TEAM PERFORMANCE

• Facilitate effective team dynamics.

• Implement performance management and OPR processes

• Communicate effectively in the workplace.

Manage plant, process and systems

• Manages packaging in accordance with VPO tools and principles

• Monitor and manage production processes to within budgets

• Optimise production plan and shifts across the hall, aligned to agreed Run Strategies

• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment.

• Build and foster relationships with customers and suppliers.

• Ensure conformance to specifications and standards

• Ensure maintenance integrity

• Optimize process capability

• Lead packaging projects

• Co-ordinate packaging logistics

• Support engineering integrity

• Conduct administration

Translate and implement packaging, manufacturing and business strategies

• Lead through VPO

• Implement Technical Strategies

• Implement packaging Capex projects

Manage Health, Safety and Environment

• Identification and closure of unsafe practices and conditions through SIO's

• Adherence to PPE policies and standards

• Safe maintenance practice compliance & audits

• 5S standard adherence

• Autonomous operation tools in a safe and good working order

• Safety inspections conducted

• Ensure staff medical compliance

• Compliance to environmental policies

Improve Packaging Performance

• Maintenance and cleaning standard adherence

• Packaging efficiencies

• Quality

• Container and material losses

• Packaging Beer Loss

• GOP compliance

• VPO implementation

• Productivity

• Maintenance ZBB

• Drive high plant reliability

• Packaging plant reliability

• Asset management indicators

Lead thru People

• 1-on-1’s completed

• SKAP managed

• Department communication & engagement managed

• People development managed

• OPR process managed

• Recruitment managed

• Turnover managed

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance

• Leadership ability (ability to lead the packaging hall)

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability to develop and control budgets

• Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop people

• Ability to manage complex projects of a significant amount

• Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum

• High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Packaging Management with deep expertise in asset management

• Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line would be highly advantageous

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing people

• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall (financial, operational, people)

• Demonstrated experience in leading VPO in a Brewery environment

• A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality

• Demonstrated understanding of relevant legislation, specifically health and safety and labour legislation

• Proven experience in managing Industrial Relations within the workforce

Additional Information:

• BAND: VI

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.